The Investor Business Daily article is available here.

Information technology-using consumers are seeing a deluge of useful, fast-to-arrive applications.  Chatter about “app stores” and data charges in mobile wireless bills might lead us to think that smart phones and tablet computers explain the deluge.   That’s only half-right – phones and tablets are good consumer devices for delivering applications, but Cloud Computing plays an [...]

Dr. Joseph P. Fuhr, Jr., ACI Senior Fellow and professor of Economics at Widener University, presented at CBI’s 6th Summit on Biosimilars and Follow-On Biologics.  His presentation “A Prospective Look at the Shape of Biosimilar and Innovator Companies in Five to Ten Years,” was presented on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.  His presentation included: An examination of paths [...]

The Obama administration is supporting legislation that would lead to higher taxes on foreign insurers.   But the legislative change would not provide any favors for Americans, who would ultimately pay these taxes in the form of higher insurance costs.  This is particularly true for those American residents living in coastal areas.  Indeed, in Florida, where [...]

Joseph Fuhr (ACI Senior Fellow and Widener University economics professor) and Steve Pociask (ACI president) have published an article in Scientific Research’s periodical, Low Carbon Economy.  The article reviews and estimates the potential benefits of telecommuting (both economic and environmental benefits) resulting from broadband and other information technologies.  The article is available online and in print form.  Citation:  Joseph P. Fuhr [...]

Today 277 million consumers use mobile wireless service.  For some it’s their only “phone.”  For many it’s how they coordinate family schedules and their children’s location and needs.  For many employees, it’s the link that lets them do their job better, adding a massive $70 billion per year to US productivity.   So we’d expect [...]

This PDF (aci-letter) is an example letter to policymakers urging them to stop the ongoing insurance scam that is driving up consumer prices.  The author, ACI president Steve Pociask, takes issue with the fact that the former state consumer advocate was scheduled to meet at the state Capitol as a voice of opposition against reforms that [...]

Earlier this afternoon, a New York federal district court struck down a settlement Google had brokered with the Author’s Guild over its digitization of books.  The settlement would have allowed Google to continue the scanning and digitizing books, and simply paying a fine for its copyright infringement. The settlement went “too far” however, in the [...]

In response to Judge Chin’s decision announced today to reject the Google Books Settlement, Steve Pociask, President of the American Consumer Institute released the following statement:   “We applaud Judge Chin’s decision to reject this settlement as it would have given the most dominant online firm a significant advantage over its rivals and online book [...]

An op-ed written by ACI President, Steve Pociask, and published in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on March 16, 2011 explains why Florida has the highest property insurance premiums.  To read the op-ed, click here.